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“To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics requires a kind of vitality that cannot be described in purely logical terms.”

Kind Doe Said Term Existence Survival Mathematics Mere Guarantees Contradiction Logical Vitality

Book:Mathematics and Logic

Source: Mathematics and Logic

“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.”

Wells Art Self Seems Action Self Esteem Essentials Achievement Survival Bases Convinced Esteem Rhythm Guarantees Credibility Getting Started

Author:Seamus Heaney

“The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.”

Country Survival Guarantees

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of equilibrium that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man.”

Men Kind Doe Stills Environment Particular Products Survival Species Environmental Contrary Guarantees Fragile Environmentalism Equilibrium Earth Day

Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

“I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!”

“Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?”

“And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.”

Ifs World Protect Survival All Time Guarantees Bad Things Protect You

Book:The Higher Power of Lucky

Source: The Higher Power of Lucky

“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.”

Ifs Business Quality Style Honor Fit Survival Guarantees Customs Flood Old Fashioned Hospitality Good Will Continuity Politeness

Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.”

Lost Survival Guarantees Guarantees That Getting Lost

Author:Joe Teti

“The only way we can guarantee our continued survival on earth is to recognise the importance of other non human life forms and stop pretending we're on top of some pyramid of domination over other beings.”

Way Humans Earth Form Survival Importance Human Life Guarantees Pretending Domination Recognise Pyramids

Author:Rod Coronado

“The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity.”

“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.”